Social Responsibility Orientation and Startup Employment Outcomes (with Matthew Lee). Conditionally Accepted at Strategic Management Journal
Target Startup’s Organizational Structure and Acquirer’s Integration-Separation Decision (with Ronnie Lee)
Status Selectivity: The Role of Candidate Status and Gender in Startup Job Applications (with Tristan Botelho)
Founders' Impact on Startup Employee Retention (with Minjae Kim)
Firm Growth and Stagnation in the United States: Key Trends and New Data Opportunities (with John Haltiwanger, Joonkyu Choi, and Nathan Goldschlag) [Link]. Strategic Management Journal (Forthcoming)
Early Joiners and Startup Performance (with Joonkyu Choi, John Haltiwanger, and Nathan Goldschlag). Review of Economics and Statistics, 107(6): 1485-1500, 2025 [Link]
Mentioned in: Wall Street Journal, NBER BulletinStartup Hiring through Firm-Driven Search: Evidence from VFA (with Mike Pergler). Strategic Management Journal, 46(8): 1829-2048, 2025 [Link]
Recognition: Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award (Finalist), Strategic Human Capital IG, SMS Annual Conference 2021Mentioned in: Knowledge at WhartonWhen Do Startups Scale? Large-scale Evidence (with Ronnie Lee). Strategic Management Journal, 45(9): 1633-1669, 2024 [Link]
Mentioned in: Strategic Management Society, Knowledge at WhartonStartup Acquisitions as a Hiring Strategy: Turnover Differences Between Acquired and Regular Hires. Strategy Science , 9(2): 118-134, 2024 [Link]
Mentioned in: Wall Street Journal, MIT Sloan NewsFounder Turnover and Organizational Change (with Minjae Kim). Organization Science, 35(1): 259-280, 2024 [Link]
Recognition: Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award, OMT Division, Academy of Management 2021Startup Acquisitions, Relocation, and Employee Entrepreneurship. Strategic Management Journal, 43(11):2189-2216, 2022 (Lead Article) [Link]
Recognition: Best Paper Prize, SMS Annual Conference 2020Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the US (with Pierre Azoulay, Benjamin Jones, and Javier Miranda), American Economic Review: Insights, 4(1): 71-88, 2022 [Link]
Mentioned in: The White House (Economic Report of the President), Quartz, Knowledge at WhartonAge and High-Growth Entrepreneurship (with Pierre Azoulay, Benjamin Jones, and Javier Miranda), American Economic Review: Insights, 2(1): 65-82, 2020 [Link]
Mentioned in: The New York Times, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, World Economic Forum, Financial Times, Forbes, Quartz, NBER Digest, MIT Sloan NewsIs There a Startup Wage Premium? Evidence from MIT Graduates, Research Policy, 47(3): 637-649, 2018 [Link]
When Should Startups Scale? (with Ronnie Lee), Harvard Business Review (HBR.org), 2024 [Link]
The Challenge of Retaining Startup Talent After an Acquisition, Harvard Business Review (HBR.org), 2024 [Link]
Servicification in the US Economy: The Role of Startups versus Incumbent Firms (with Mercedes Delgado and Karen Mills), NBER Volume: The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, 2020 [Link]
Entrepreneurship and Innovation at MIT: Continuing Global Growth and Impact (with Edward Roberts and Fiona Murray), Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 15(1):1-55, 2019 [Link]
The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45 (with Pierre Azoulay, Benjamin Jones, and Javier Miranda), Harvard Business Review (HBR.org), 2018 [Link]
Venture Careers (with Elaine Pak)
Geographic Expansion and Hiring Strategy Among Ventures (with Liinus Hietaniemi)
Entrepreneurship in India (with Anusha Sirigiri)